The Coming Famine – Constraints to global food production in an overpopulated, affluent and resource-scarce world. Worldwide, groundwater is running out at an alarming rate, especially in regions using it to grow food.
The only company in Britain using hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas from shale rock says the controversial technique probably did trigger earth tremors in April and May. Fracturing operations were suspended on May 27 following the detection of a tremor centred just outside Blackpool.
Hydrogeologist, John Polglase, digs into the many layers of the Great Artesian Basin, and gives a fascinating insight into how the GAB is formed.
Mines discharge polluted water